The Biggest Assumption Every F1 Simulator Makes
F1 simulation is at its best when it helps you reason about structure: the points system, the calendar, and the way one driver’s result necessarily reshuffles everyone else’s. But the moment you press “simulate,” the model has to make at least one simplifying choice about the sport’s messiest reality: performance doesn’t stay still. The biggest assumption most F1 simulators make is that relative pace is stationary - that the pecking order you start with is broadly the pecking order you finish with, plus noise.
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